[CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Sun Nov 8 19:22:49 UTC 2009
Craig White wrote:
> agreed but I am not a fan of RAID-5 any more because it is so slow.
> Suggest RAID 10/0+1
>
generally, I'd agree, but for bulk storage like a backup server, the
drive count gets kind of higher.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/936/SC936E1-R900.cfm
would be the way to go then. I'd probably use one raid1 of 2 drives
for the OS and software, then 12 as a raid 0+1 and 1-2 hot spares
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